implicitly
advEtymology From implicit + -ly.
1
In an implicit or implied manner.
- tell someone implicitly
- He was punished for asking for answers implicitly during the exam.
1 more example
- I will sometimes omit the features that need to agree on the arcs, just to keep the diagrams simpler. I will also often omit many features of the head categories, such as count, mass, name, and number agreement features, again for simplicity of presentation. But keep in mind that all these agreement features are implicitly there.2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Dependency Grammar” (chapter 3), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 57:
2
Without doubting or questioning.
- Antonyms
- explicitly